S Malik Hooker (All B1G, All-American, Dallas Cowboys)

[Buckeneye]

What's so impressive about that tape on Malik is the combination of instincts, football IQ and athletic ability. Rolling that tape I could swear he is baiting that backside throw.

As a single high or even certain roll coverages where you're over top of the #3, you key him for vertical then if he's not you usually expect something vertical on the backside. Malik doesn't even wait for the #3. Keep in mind
he's favoring that far-side hash over the #3. He just sees it almost immediately and lets his instinct and physical gifts do the rest.

That 2016 secondary folks - Malik, Marshon, Conley, Denzel, etc etc... I put them up against the best secondaries tOSU has ever fielded. Yes, I'm even including those groups in the 90's.

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[OHSportsFan]

Just picked Sam Darnold and added a nice return.

 

[Dryden]

 

[RB07OSU]

That looks familiar to both Darnold and Hooker.

 

[Munie]

11th rated safety out of 64 starting Safeties according to PFF.
https://www.profootballfocus.com/nfl/players/malik-hooker/11770

 

[OSU_D/]

For reference, Peppers is rated #41.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

For reference, Peppers is rated #41.

Ah.....so throw the whole thing away because clearly it's flawed if he's anything higher than whatever the population of China is.

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[ScriptOhio]

Injuries have kept Malik Hooker from playing to his potential. Colts hope clean bill of health changes that

Malik Hooker hasn’t had a feeling like this in the NFL before.

Hooker’s right next to T.Y. Hilton on a perfect night at Victory Field, signing autographs for a line of Colts-clad fans that seems to stretch on into forever. A half an hour later, Hooker walks to the mound for the first pitch and tosses a perfect strike, a smile beaming across his face.

For the first time since the Colts drafted him, Hooker can truly enjoy the summer.

“This is probably the best I’ve felt since I left college,” Hooker said. “Probably even better than that.”

The summer after Hooker was drafted, he was on his way back from a pair of postseason surgeries to repair a hernia and a torn labrum in his hip. He spent last summer on the mend from the torn ACL and MCL that ended his rookie season.

Those injuries, the way he had to battle to get ready for training camp, made it hard to get in the kind of shape he wanted to be when training camp began.

“For me to finally be able to have a whole offseason to work my body, it’s been great,” Hooker said.

Maybe this will be the season Hooker can finally put it all together.

Entire article: https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...thers-safety-indianapolis-indians/1306847001/

 

[OHSportsFan]

Ridiculous INT

 

[Systems_id]

I legitimately can't believe Hooker, Lattimore, Conley, and Ward were all on the same team together.

Lawd what a secondary.

 

[MaxBuck]

I legitimately can't believe Hooker, Lattimore, Conley, and Ward were all on the same team together.

Lawd what a secondary.

Watched Tejas working the "DBU" nonsense last night.

Those Longhorns have no clue. tOSU = tDBU.

 

[Dryden]

 

[ScriptOhio]